A place to meme about the glorious ROMAN EMPIRE (and Roman Republic, and Roman Kingdom)! Byzantines tolerated! The HRE is not.
RULES:
No racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, bigotry, etc. The past may be bigoted, but we are not.
Memes must be Rome-related, not just the title. It can be about Rome, or using Roman aesthetics, or both, but the meme itself needs to have Roman themes.
Follow Lemmy.world rules.
Not sure where to start on Roman history?
A quick memetic primer on Republican Rome
A quick memetic primer on Imperial Rome
Explanation: The Roman pantheon is often equated to the Greek pantheon, to the point of being accused of stealing their gods wholesale from the Greeks. The reality is more nuanced, but the Roman practice of interpretatio (also stolen from the Greeks), seeing all the pantheons of the world as fundamentally the same forces worshipped under different names, and the practice of Romans literally stealing gods from their enemies, muddies the waters a bit.
-I thought we were having Heraklès.
-Oh, no, I said, "Hercle." That's what I call Heraklès.
-You call Heraklès Hercle.
-Yes, it's a regional dialect.
-Uh-huh. What region?
-Uh, Dodecapolis.
-Really. Well, I'm from Vatluna and I never heard anyone use the phrase, "Hercle"
-Oh, not in Vatluna, no; it's an Arretium expression.
-I see.
